Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

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Klondike Kate almost threw away this biscuit, but Yukon Johann grabbed it and engraved it on the laser cutter.

Credit: The Watsons

One of the students from Effie Kokrine Charter School in Fairbanks, Alaska who worked with us in the Fab Lab.  She is making a new fashion statement with the hooks we bought to hang the posters with.

Credit: The Watsons

Credit: Alan Craig

This is the MakerBot that the kids brought from Boston to show in Alaska.

Sam is seriously in love with the laser cutter.

These are the students who came from Boston to help us show the Alaskans how to use the Fab Lab.

Jim Witte writes:

I'm a mentor with the cu1to1 mentoring program (http://www.cu1to1.org). I brought my 10th grade mentee to the fablab to make jigsaw puzzles that I used to teach first grade cub scouts their "cub scout promise".

Here's a link to the youtube video showing the puzzle being made in the laser cutter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0ZBCARGmo

My mentee did the design on the computer, we made 10 of the puzzles. I've attached a picture of the scouts and parents putting the puzzle together.

I sent the same picture and video to the cu1to1 mentoring program. My hope here is to build bridges between facilities like the fablab and programs like the cu1to1 mentoring program.